"It Gets Your Body Movin'"

IAMSOUND

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So who are the suckers, exactly? Not Suckers-- Byrne/Brock-flavored Brooklyn quartet who have seen all of MGMT's photo spreads-- but the suckers. Lowercase. By cloaking their visuals in assembly line fake-LSD/new-age nonsense (see: dollar-store cat creep on the front of their debut EP, psychedelic fruit salad MySpace wallpaper), are Suckers in fact the suckers? Or are they suckering us (and MGMT) by hiding their real-band, yelp-friendly first four songs underneath second-hand, fourth generation hippie flotsam? If I mention how Yeasayer's Anand Wilder co-produced the EP, does that make this band a legitimate BK poly-pop front runner? How many pink'n'blue feathers am I holding up?

More slippage: Despite its title, "It Gets Your Body Movin'" is not a lost cog from the C&C Music Factory. Not even close. If your body moves, it'll just tilt, maybe. Because there's a lot more hoisting suds sing-along here than you'd expect. There are only three or four different lines in the entire song. Easy to remember. It's refrain rises, falls, rise again bigger. It's dead simple; there's nothing to hide behind. Made me think what-- quite literally-- gets me up come 8:04 a.m. A loud noise. Work, sure. A little fear. But, simpler still, a body moves because it can move. Meanwhile, down-but-not-out trumpet and whistle solos show what only a certain type of body can do. Everyone's a sucker, I guess, until they're not.